Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are usually harvested about 100 to 110 days after planting or when the plant’s leaves start to yellow. Though, sweet potatoes can continue to grow after their leaves ...

Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and foliage ...

You’ve put in the hard work and effort to lovingly plant and grow potatoes in your garden. Next comes the fun part: digging your potatoes up and enjoying your bounty. Yet how do you know when potatoes ...

Timing is everything when it comes to these delicious tubers. Sweet potatoes are ready to harvest after about 90 to 130 days in the ground. Getting this timing right is very important, as harvesting ...

One of my readers asked me recently when a person should dig up her sweet potato vines and harvest her sweet tubers. Despite its name sweet potato is not a true potato. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) ...

SEMINARY, Miss. (WDAM) - It’s harvest time for a Covington County organization that grows vegetables and donates them to food pantries across South Mississippi. Seeds of Hope is growing sweet corn, ...

You can smell starch in the air as tractors kick up dirt and semitrucks filled with potatoes can be seen rolling through Aroostook County. Farmers are racing to gather their crop before the frosts. At ...

This year’s harvest is strong, thanks in part to consistent rain but not the flooding we’ve seen in recent years. One in a series of columns co-written by Tony and Karen Russo, a father-daughter team ...

Rebecca Travers (left), Food Bank of Wyoming program manager, and Brian Lee (right), a research scientist at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center, help bag ...

Sweet potatoes are ready to harvest after about 90 to 130 days in the ground. Getting this timing right is very important, as harvesting too early or too late can impact sweet potato flavor. Keep an ...